TWI247224B - Method of ordering items using electronic catalogs - Google Patents

Abstract

Method and apparatus are disclosed for ordering items using electronic catalogs including providing to buyers index information and directions to distributed supplier information which identifies goods and services of suppliers and providing ordering services to buyers and sellers by means of a global computer information network including transaction routing, multiple protocol support for exchanging content and transaction information and for converting an order into the suppliers' preferred protocol. An index to the items in the catalogs on a supplier computer system is stored on a public computer system for generating a pointer for a customer computer system to catalog information on the supplier computer system and then ordering a desired item from the public computer system in response to an order to the public computer system from the customer computer system.

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1247224 A7 B7 Ministry of Economic Affairs Intellectual Property Bureau Employees Consumption Cooperatives Printing V. INSTRUCTIONS (1) Technical scope of the invention: The present invention relates to an electronic commerce system, and in particular to a "----> . ...------------——' A highly distributed system for wood-scale information content and e-commerce transactions on a global computer network, such as the Internet. The background of the invention The Internet economy is rapidly forming, and e-commerce is a typical striker. According to several industrial analyses, the business opportunities for e-commerce are expected to expand to more than 1.1 million trillion yuan in the year of 2002. This business-to-business unit will receive most of the money transactions for e-commerce, an estimate of $800. A detailed review shows that the huge expenditure activities related to the sale and purchase of e-commerce will start from the management of resources, and it is necessary to operate the goods and services required by a company. Obtaining the source of business f is ideal for e-commerce because of tradition The above-mentioned management resources are subject to manual 'document-intensive methods. One is prone to bias, error and inefficiency. The expected savings associated with reducing the cost of acquiring operating resources are in the range of 5% to 15%. The savings incurred by the manufacturing organization can have a significant bottom line benefit. Although, traditionally, each supplier relies on itself to provide its own purchase relationship with the customer. This will have the disadvantage that the supplier's system It is not connected to the buyer's program (for example, for delivery inspection and procurement). Because of the kind, such as the public on the Internet, see http//〇penbUy org) , this supplier system to the buyer line. Unfortunately, this OBI still has the disadvantage that the end user does not have to know the supply (please read the notes on the back and fill out this page). Order ---------

1247224 A7 B7 Ministry of Economic Affairs Intellectual Property Bureau employee consumption cooperative printing 5, invention description (2) The merchant has the goods he wants. This is a fundamental shortcoming of the basic OSI, because the main job that an end user must implement when purchasing an item is to find what he wants. In order to release the expected benefits associated with business-to-business e-commerce, the ideal one can provide: • a user's business relationship, procedures and systems. • The balance between the buyer and the supplier. The Operational Resource Management System (ORMS), from Ariba Technologies, Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., is a customer-driven solution that gives buyer organizations the ability to achieve significant savings in access to operational resources. This Ariba ORMS is described in detail in the International Patent Application No. PCT/US98/08407, filed on Apr. 27, 1998, the entire content of This article serves as a reference. An example of how this Ariba ORMS can be used in an enterprise is provided in Figure 1. This Ariba ORMS can do the following: • Empower the buyer with the network; • Master the procurement process and expenses; • Empower the enterprise system with the network. Traditionally, the buyer's organization has used Ariba ORMS to empower its users, pros and legal entities of the relevant departments to access all of its operational resources through a single public network infrastructure. This Ariba ORMS is executed on a customer's corporate intranet. Ariba ORMS provides a user-to-product catalogue that is stored in the user's own network system, and Ariba ORMS guides users to products from appropriate suppliers. This paper scale applies to China National Standard (CNS) A4 specifications. (210 X 297 mm) I · ^ i — — — — — — ^« — — — — 1 — I (Please read the notes on the back and fill out this page) 1247224 A7 V. INSTRUCTIONS (3) AND SERVICES At the same time, simplify the procedures for obtaining operational resources (for example, in the organization). In addition, users have the ability to handle and view visibility, and are able to refer to information about the current status of their requirements. All expenditures on the management of the resources are extremely important to achieve significant savings in access to these resources. Typically, different expense categories require a unique procurement process to request, agree, and buy favorite items. This eight-hearted bloated user is easy to understand for each program, so the complexity is minimized, while still providing the enterprise with space to model its complex program scripts. In addition, internal collection procedures are available within the Ariba ORMS: for service requests such as ι/τ or new employee work bags. Completion of operational resource expenditures and procedures will drive the greatest savings and provide space for cross-enterprise global collaborative purchases. Most large companies require a heterogeneous enterprise resource planning system environment. The seamless integration of these systems into the Ariba ORMS, as shown in Figure 2, provides easy access to information on the web and provides important information such as finance, human resources, assurance, inventory, management and other relevant information. The full effect. The adoption rate of the business-to-business e-commerce system has grown rapidly. In fact, this Ariba ORMS is the leader of the global 2000 and mid-sized companies.

Ariba's customer achievement and market leadership has created a critically large number of buying organizations' that represent annual expenditures on dozens of megabytes of operating resources. Each Ariba customer represents a network of people, systems, and programs that acquire operational resources for their business management. The key components of the buyer and the associated purchasing power have been directed to the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 public) for the paper scale. Ministry of Economic Affairs Intellectual Property Bureau Staff Consumer Cooperative Printed 1247224 A7 —-- ----- B7______ V. INSTRUCTIONS (4) The participation of a large number of suppliers. This supplier demand is fueling the need for a large amount of integration of product and service content. In addition, e-commerce transactions, such as purchase orders, notifications, order changes, orders and shipping conditions, and invoices, require extensive consolidation. The large-scale integration of supplier content and the integration of e-commerce transactions include: • Peer-to-Peer network • “Multiple” versus “One” vs. “Most” networks • Single standard network

Peer to Peer networks, such as electronic data interchange (EDI), connect individual purchase and sale organizations in a one-to-one manner. E-commerce has traditionally been used to intervene in a one-to-one relationship based on mutual interaction, and the Peer-to-Peer network has been used very effectively to learn about production and manufacturing resources. However, 'operating resources are non-manufactured goods and services obtained from tens of thousands of suppliers, each with the ability to vary widely. Therefore, when the Peer-to-Peer network gives the connection between the buyer and the supplier in a convenient manner, they are difficult to refer to thousands of organizations that traverse the supply and operation resources. Because of this complexity and the cost of creating each “one-on-one, communication script. Most of the most-to-many networks provide a central repository or location for all content and trading activities. All purchases pass through this central round. Axis and guide I. These networks aggregate the content of the supplier so as to provide an effective way to traverse more than one sales organization to find the desired product or service. The aggregation of the supplier technology depends on the formalization of the content, here Most of the resources of the goods must be II-----IIII ------II order-I------I (please read the notes on the back and fill out this page)

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1247224 - Kind of in-common computer system to aggregate supplier content patent cases, 5th, 3 find 5-boots (granted to KingJr et al.) in the middle of the release + μ尧1 data normalization system defines a total explanation (4), and supplier The same or similar products are provided. To be effective in implementing the 'field expertise' must exist in the industry or product area that needs to be formalized: Lack: The domain knowledge that produces the inner winter is "IS, the two-pair majority" network is the IS travel turtle. While providing central control for the aggregation of supplier content.... Most of the pair-to-majority, 'the network also creates bottlenecks, #greatly restricts the network's availability and stability.' These M functions, such as "blocking points", are used by the cyber bee unless they are effectively and effectively used by the VIII technology department based on domain-based content expertise. In addition, at some point, the amount of data to be aggregated: too much for the ground to be effectively and efficiently aggregated in any way. Systems that also aggregate supplier content are simply not easy to scale to support a general-purpose system because there are strictly thousands of suppliers and millions (or even millions) of items that are actually In business matters, I provide a sales interface for its customers by a third-party benefit, which is unfavorable to the supplier system (they have to hold their own customers' buying experience). At the same time, as an actual technical matter, suppliers must do a lot of work to match this aggregation system. As for a single standard network, although it is an ideal theory, the adoption of a single standard for content and e-commerce transaction integration is highly unacceptable. A number of industrial and geographically based engines exist to generate a common script for content and a common format for trading that produces multiple standards. This paper scale applies to the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 public).

Please read the notes on the back and fill out this page.) Ministry of Economic Affairs, Intellectual Property Bureau, Staff Consumer Cooperative, Printed Clothes 1247224 A7 ____ B7 V. Invention Description (6). In addition to reducing associated costs, these engines seek the best communication, distribution and connectivity efficiency in industrial and geographic areas. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for providing a large scale e-commerce integrated with a purchase/seller product and/or service procurement system including confirmation, quotation, ordering and payment transactions. The present invention includes an indexing information for the buyer and a guide to the distributed supplier information. It identifies the goods and services of the supplier and provides the ordering service to the buyer and the seller through the device of the global computer information network. The present invention also encompasses an ordering transaction path, a plurality of negotiated branches for exchanging content and transaction information, and a transaction negotiation to satisfy an order that the supplier is satisfied with. Broadly speaking, the present invention is directed to a system for electronically ordering goods. 'At least one supplier computer system stores at least one product catalogue containing the goods sold by the supplier, and a customer computer system has a public computer. The system improver includes an index of the goods in the catalogue of the at least one supplier computer system, in response to a request for the desired item from the customer computer system, for inquiring about the desired item on the public computer system. And means for generating a prompt for the customer's computer system to catalog information about the desired item identified by the index inquiry in the product catalog on the at least one supplier computer system. According to another aspect of the present invention, the public computer system includes information relating to the catalogue of the desired item accessed from the customer computer system based on the customer's access to the at least one supplier computer system, for electronically applicable to the paper scale. China National Standard (CNS) A4 Specification (210 X 297 public) 9 ------------I ^ --------^-------I 1^ ( Please read the note on the back and fill out this page.) 1247224 A7 B7 V. INSTRUCTIONS (A device for ordering the goods to be ordered. Use this document to include the customer's own computer system' and The method of the goods in the catalogue on the system, including the steps stored on the public computer system on the supplier computer system / U - (four), for the Lai Zi shirt electric service system to the "required" A request for goods in the public computer system, and a catalogue information on the supply of the goods in the product catalogue for the customer (4) produces a reminder for the customer computer system. ° Another aspect of the invention is the method established in the previous section, And respond to the self-consulting computer system With the order of the computer system, and from the public, the computer system orders the required goods β A with a brief description of the drawings: Figure 1 shows a schematic block diagram of a traditional Ariba0RMS. Figure 2 shows the schematic diagram showing how the enterprise resource planning system is Slotted into this Ariba ORMS. Fig. 3 is a schematic block diagram showing a specific example of the present invention, including showing how the present invention integrates with the buyer's organization and the supplier organization. Figure 4 - Schematic block diagram ' illustrates a method for ordering operational resources from a supplier catalog using the present invention. Figure 5 is a schematic block diagram showing how a supplier registration can contact information with the present invention. A schematic block diagram illustrating how the present invention provides a single access point for a cargo program. __ This paper scale applies to the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 Public Interest Intelligence Bureau Intellectual Property Agency Consumer Cooperative Printed) 1247224 A7 B7 V. INSTRUCTIONS (8) Figure 7 is a schematic block diagram illustrating (along with part of Figure 4) DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The present invention is a solution to the integration of large-scale content and e-commerce transactions. The present invention is a new paradigm that 'achieves the Internet-scale economy of the Internet scale. The invention is a highly scaled and distributed device that connects a rapidly growing number of buyers with a large number of suppliers using Ariba 0 SMS (or other customer-based systems). The invention also provides an Internet for buyers and suppliers. The scope of the service, which accelerates the advantages of the business-to-business e-commerce and reduces barriers to entry for participants. In addition to providing a stable path to supplier content and transparent trading channels, in some specific examples, the present invention is the same Release commercial and information services. This WWW Global Information Network (or other global information network) provides an excellent medium for suppliers to offer their products and services to customers and prospective customers. Suppliers can create unique brandings they sell and create competitive differentiation. The present invention facilitates the use of supplier content of different natures managed by a supplier via its own e-commerce system to increase the arbitrage of the majority of the structure that is distributed to the majority of the structure. The invention provides support for a number of standard ways of exchanging content and trading information. A preferred embodiment of this multi-protocol network allows the buyer to send a transaction (e.g., purchase request) from Anba ORMS in a standard format, which is then automatically converted into a vendor's preferred transaction agreement. This structure below eliminates the reliance on a single standard for e-commerce, while giving 'paper size 6 x 297 mm. ^ ^--------^-------- - Line (please read the notes on the back and fill out this page) 1247224 V. INSTRUCTIONS (9) Suppliers are free to trade under their preferred agreement. The present invention can be implemented when additional standard transactions and internal valley agreements occur. This month's use of the 和 and highly scaleable methods for content management uses metrics instead of content aggregation and uses Ariba 〇RMS to connect the Bays to the supplier's catalog. This indexing approach eliminates the need to aggregate content in a central repository and provides buyers with a robust and comprehensive search tool. The present invention can be conceived as a gate through which one can be transferred from a Bayer mechanism to what is available in the market. The present invention gives Bayer the option to connect to the approved supplier's website location, the source of the goods and the services that are indexed by the invention, or the index of the operational resources directly in the Adba ORMS, or both.匕It also allows suppliers to trade separately with the buyer's organization. The ubiquity of the Internet and the wide-ranging organization it provides to buyers and suppliers makes it a low-cost and measurable platform for e-commerce. The present invention enhances the method to achieve a trustworthy 'public and measurable content and transaction integration underlying structure. Printed by the Intellectual Property Office of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, as shown in Figure 3, the public computer system 15Q of the present invention is a highly distributed solution for large-scale content and e-commerce transaction integration on the Internet. . It provides services to buyers and sellers' institutions. It accelerates the traditional advantages of a networked economic system for business-to-business e-commerce. It also incorporates several Internet services, including catalog content management 102, ordering transaction path 104, and a number of standard ways to support the exchange of content and transaction information. This paper scale applies to China National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 mm) 1247224 A7 B7 Ministry of Economic Affairs Intellectual Property Bureau employee consumption cooperative printing 5, invention description (10) To the buyer's organization, this system 150 connects them to enter In a single adjoining network, 'making it easier for buyers to come to e-commerce with a lot of suppliers. Similarly, for the sales organization 114, the system 150 connects to the buyer network 112 in a seamless network environment, making it easier for a supplier 114 to conduct e-commerce with a large number of buyers 112. Referring to Figures 3 and 4, the supplier product catalog is stored in the standard product catalog exchange formats cif 403a and 403b on the supplier network 114. An index 408 to one of the supplier product catalogs 403 is generated and stored on the system servo benefit 150. (This step is indicated by 1 in the figure). When a customer wants to purchase an item using the Ariba ORMS 404, it makes an inquiry to the system server 4〇6 (step 2). The software on system server 406 searches for index 408 on system server 406 and returns based on the query made by the customer. When the search is complete, the general resource locator URL's indicates the product on the appropriate vendor networks 402a and 402b. Directory material (step 3). The customer 404 follows one or more URL's (step 4) to retrieve product catalog material directly from the vendor network (in this case from the provider B network 402b (step 5). According to the self-supplier network 402b Retrieving the catalog material, the customer generates a request using the Ariba ORMS 404 and makes the request via the order software 410 on the system server 406. The order software 410 converts the request to the specific vendor specified by the request. In the most form, this request is forwarded to the supplier network 402b. This system service includes: • Supplier registration 110 This paper size applies to the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 mm) 13 II — — — — — — ·1111111 ^ ·1111111 (Please read the notes on the back and fill out this page) 1247224

V. INSTRUCTIONS (11) • Ordering and Trading Path 104 • Product Catalog Management 102 (Please read the notes on the back and fill out this page) • Community News and Information 109 • Future Services (not shown) Figure 5 shows this How does system 150 provide a single self-service network access point 115 for suppliers to register their contact information, directory information, order prioritization, and profile information to inform the system 150 and thus the buyer organization 112, where are they? How to communicate with them, where to find their product catalogs on the supplier's system. The Ariba ORMS system at the buyer's organization 112 can be automatically configured to use the system 15 to obtain the benefits of available supplier information. Any supplier i 14 can join without involving any buyer 112, thus creating an “open, free market. To use Ariba ORMS to conduct business with all buyer organizations, supplier 114 only needs to register once. This one is for suppliers. The single access point allows the system 150 to be scaled up in large numbers, simplifying its commercial transactions with hundreds of transaction buyers. The Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Intellectual Property Office, the Consumer Cooperative, Printing & Ding, the father, the easy control 104 is now discussed. As shown in FIG. 6, the system 150 creates a single network access point for the buyer 112 that allows them to send orders and conduct e-commerce with any vendor 114 connected to the system 150 without the need for a trade relationship. The standard or catalogue. That is, the buyer organization 112 does not need to know the ordering method for the supplier's preferences. The system 150 arranges the order from the Ariba ORMS buyer 112 to utilize the internet to the appropriate supplier 114. Ariba ORMS system The connection between 112 and system 150 is via an order sender tool kit (〇rder 14 paper size applies to China National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 public) ) Ministry of Economic Affairs Intellectual Property Bureau employee consumption cooperative printing 1247224 A7 Γ~------~ _ V. Invention description (I2)

Sender Toolkit) takes place. This order sender tool bag is an ordering mode 'it can be used to transfer orders to system 150 without encryption using secure passwords and secure shipping. The order path 1〇4 of this system 150 provides a safe and reliable order delivery. The buyer 112 and the supplier 114 receive the order confirmation and the description of the transaction process as well as the full audit trail. Integrated error handling capabilities exist at all stages of the trading process. The system 150 uses a scaleable and reliable system for processing electronic purchase orders and arranging delivery paths. The system inserts an order when it arrives into a related data store and then places it in one or more queues that are also held in a related material store. Several programs may be performed in parallel' each processing from one or more queued orders. Once an input has been processed in a queue, we are so marked to prevent duplicate processing. As a result of processing by one of the programs via a queue, an order can be inserted into one or more other queues for further processing by other programs. Column hierarchy locks are referenced to avoid repeated processing by currently running programs. This system utilizes an intermediate state for input to restore from an abnormal situation such as a hardware failure. This system references a monitoring plan that monitors the size of various queues. It can despise its size and start or stop programs on different machines on the network to handle queuing. Therefore, the system can process electronic order forms in parallel in a reliable and scaleable manner. Vendor 114 may conduct its order shipping and routing 116 at a time via the system to conduct transactions with any Ariba ORMS customer 112. They can change their choices multiple times, for example, when their internal systems become more complex. This paper size applies to the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 mm) III · ^ — — — — — — ^il —----• Line (please read the notes on the back and fill in the form) Page) 15

Ministry of Economic Affairs, Intellectual Property Office, Staff Consumer Cooperatives, Printed Paper Scale, Applicable to China National Standard (CNS) A4 Specification (210 1247224 System 150 uses the appropriate e-commerce standards to transfer transactions to Buyer 112 and supplies in the appropriate format as shown in Figure 6. Between the 114. The level of technical empowerment of the system 15 usually determines which __ order to choose from. In all cases, 'this buyer's mechanical U2 system will not support the transaction of multiple orders (four). For example, the choice of order delivery and routing options can include: • Business XML (cXML); • Internet-based electronic data exchange (Internet chat • Value added by the web-based electronic data interchange) (VAN EDI); • public purchase on the Internet (〇BI); • remote drive supplier ordering communication network location; • protection of HTML; • electronic mail; and • automatic telegraph fax. System 15 is included and/or added upon request by the supplier community. Product catalog management H) 2 services are provided. Circle 7 shows how this system 150 provides - Single-access points for buyers and suppliers to operate and directly exchange catalog content with each other, such as through _fox. Several catalog management examples can be used to equip buyers and suppliers to suit their trading model choices According to the catalogue of suppliers, this system provides suppliers with 297 mm)

I ; --------tr--------- (Please read the note on the back and fill out this page) 16 1247224 A7 V. Invention Description (U) A full range of features to manage Its catalogue content. This will provide a release of the buyer's designated product sale, again via the URL, and also provide an opportunity to participate in additional sales sessions available from the system 150. The features available from the Supplier 1H's via System 15 are effectively used to manage the sale of these products and services. As far as the buyer 112 is concerned, this system 150 provides a full set of features' which greatly simplifies content integration across multiple vendors. The content characteristics of the supplier management include: • The access to the catalogue content from multiple suppliers 114 as shown in Figure 4, via “a, to a central “inside box,” (in Figure 4) 4〇6), from the inner box via "b, to the institution 112 used for purchase. Consistently the structure of the distribution of this system 15(), this "inner box" has a URL or an indication via " c, to the catalog content on the supplier system is not sufficient from the supplier through the "d,, the product content itself transferred to the buyer. And publish the ability of the customer-specific catalogue to go through the same inner box to the relevant buyer's organization; • enable buyers who belong to different organizations within a single company to exchange valid catalog content with other institutions within the same company; • A storage room for the catalogue of product catalogues for the exchange and management of catalogue content at the supplier's location; • An index of bi-directional indexing between catalogue files in various formats • Catalogue validation. The confirmation on the sentence is that the substance and location of the supplier document are correct (that is, the required field exists, the comma is in the correct position ^, the 'number field is numbered, etc.). The semantic confirmation is the field level. The paper scale applies to the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 Regulation & (2IG X 297 public) --------^---------^ (please first Read the notes on the back and fill out this page. 17 . 1247224 A7 B7 V. INSTRUCTIONS (15) Provided by inspection to ensure that the appropriate supplier identification is used, the product classification code is correct, and other important parameters are relevant to the buyer. Correct in the body of the organization; • Used for editing the catalog file, it has errors as identified by the device; • User-driven supplier “user interface,; • for product catalog production line The product category view table of the project; comprehensive information about the product catalogues in each class, including those announced to the buyer, proposed by the supplier, to confirm those proposed. etc. Gradually increasing, the supplier is eager In the construction of a complex business-to-business e-commerce system, it establishes a unique branding and competitive differentiation for group procurement. For example, a supplier may have a powerful configuration engine, and a buyer needs to use 匕 to construct a complex Production The Ariba solution completely increases the system for achieving the same purpose for the buyer to handle. For example, in a specific example, Ariba manages the resource management system Ariba Juli Support - the technology is called "Punch Out" ,,,,, this Punch Out is a supplier content integration model. It makes Mark up

LangUage (XML) and e-commerce systems from vendors. Since then, such as ORMS 'this' punch _, technology allows users to connect to a vendor's e-commerce network location. User authentication is generated via identification. 'The identity certificate is sent to Ariba 〇RMS Communicating this user's machine spears/assessment After the identification, the user 112 receives a private congratulatory message and content suitable for its purpose, which reflects the price of its particular customer. The user 112 then utilizes any facility. The location of the supplier is ιΐ4 available for this paper size paper shot_家鲜f Ministry of Economic Affairs Intellectual Property Bureau employee consumption cooperative printing clothing 1247224 A7 -_________Β7__ five, invention description (16) to find the desired product (for example, in supply The search engine in the location is added to the supplier-based purchase basket. Finally, the request for safe delivery of the resulting product selection to the user in the Ariba ORMS occurs at the purchaser 112. This system 150 provides group news and information as a service to buyers and suppliers. The dissemination of appropriate information and the strengthening of communications represent an important part of this system. As a result, the following information services and group theory are planned: • Industry news, product reviews and supplier notes; • Vertical group forums and information between buyers and suppliers; • Editorial reports on system 150 events Content, product release and service; • Access to information libraries 'such as Dun & Bradstree々Hoovers for corporate or industrial research users; • Buyer search resource guide; • Supplier evaluation and satisfaction level; • Buyer and supply Business side writing information; • Partner information; in addition to other examples, some additional services for the buyer and supplier can be provided, including • auction of surplus materials; • pre-arrival supply Business Contract; • Vertical Industrial Purchasing Alliance; • Government Contract Center; — — — — — — — — — — — 1111111 ^ · 1111111« (Please read the note on the back and fill out this page)

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• REP/RFI list services; • Dedicated procurement services; • Strategy source; This system 150 business solution has two parts that collectively provide procedures, systems and organizations that are involved in the merger of operational resources. Seamless end-to-end integration. This Ariba ORMS provides this sophisticated global enterprise system that efficiently and automatically connects internal users, systems and programs. This system 150 provides this security and a large number of scaleable Internet (Internet) underlying structures for efficient connection to buyers and suppliers. With this system 150, Ariba ORMS, the user is seamlessly connected to the supplier network, while the supplier is seamlessly connected to the buyer's network to create a global procurement network of one of the operational resources. The synergy between the purchasing power of Ariba ORMS and the high throughput of the supplier community of System 150 creates new opportunities for return on investment and implementation and maintenance. This system 150 provides an expanded integration of the group's internal network providers plus the Internet, the Internet, and the value of the private network that adds value to the content. This combination conveys the entire value chain and the interaction of automated trading partners through the integration of important resources within and outside the company. ----τ---;------------Book---------Line· (Please read the notes on the back and fill out this page) Ministry of Economics Intellectual Property Bureau employee consumption cooperative printed 20 paper scales applicable to China National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 mm) 1247224

At B7 Wuming Description Ministry of Economic Affairs Intellectual Property Bureau Staff Consumer Cooperatives Printed Component Labels Control 102... Product Catalog Content Management 104... Ordering Trading Path 106... Bargaining Support 109... Community News and Information 110···Supplier Registration 112· · Buyer Network 114···Sales Agency 115·· Access Point 116...Order Shipping and Route Selection 117···Access Point 150...System 402a,b...Vendor Network 403a,b...Product Directory Exchange Format 404--Ariba ORMS 406···System Server 408...Index 410···Ordering Software-----------I - · I ! III Booking · I----II (Please Read the notes on the back and fill out this page.) This paper size applies to the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 mm) 21

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1247224 ABCD Patent Application Range frsnr No. 89105506 Application Patent Revision Amendment 94.05.18. 1. A machine readable medium having executable instructions that enable a machine to implement a method for electronically ordering goods And the method includes the following actions: accessing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) on a public procurement directory system, the URL is one of several UR1s, and each UR]L individually refers to the description one Product catalog information for the catalogue of products, the catalogue data describing each catalogue of goods is stored in one of several vendor computer systems; the vendor computer automatically receives the product from the access URL Directory material, wherein the product catalog material describes the product catalogue from one of the plurality of vendor computer systems associated with the access URL; generating a catalog for the access URL For the purchase of goods (4), the request includes a part of the catalogue information describing the catalogue of the product; and the goods for the catalogue The request and ordered the receiver to catalog information on the computer system of the supplier, where the request is a subscription-based customers to be automatically converted free transfer of different formats. 2. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of vendor computer systems are associated with a plurality of suppliers, each of the providers being pre-approved Each catalogue item for sale can be made available. 3. The machine readable medium as described in claim 1 of the patent application, wherein the _I catalogue item is pre-approved for sale. Table paper scale suitable for home (CNS) A4 specifications (210Χ: Ζ97 male thin)~~ ---~-- 0 15 Printed by the Society. (Please read the notes on the back and fill out this page), 1Τ -22- 25